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General TC => General TC Talk => Topic started by: bagheris on November 30, 2012, 07:14:32 AM

Title: Dual Screen
Post by: bagheris on November 30, 2012, 07:14:32 AM

Hi All,

We are trying to setup dual screen on tiny core but really struggling

I'm new to using Tiny core so forgive me if this sounds dumb

Is dual screen possible, if so how is it configured

Thanks,

bagheris

Title: Re: Dual Screen
Post by: althalus on November 30, 2012, 08:46:02 AM

With some more details on your system (graphics card, preferred window manager), people can give you  and/or point you to more specific instructions. There are differences to be aware of depending on whether or not your gfx is radeon, nvidia, or something more obscure.

As a quick answer, yes, it is most definitely possible. I personally run a dual screen setup with xrandr (Xprogs extension, if memory servers, but use the provides feature in the apps browser if you need to) on my laptop using the open source radeon drivers

Title: Re: Dual Screen
Post by: Rich on November 30, 2012, 10:17:46 AM

Hi bagheris
Welcome to the forum. You should also list what steps you took in trying to set up dual screen, such as extensions
installed and files modified.

Title: Re: Dual Screen
Post by: bagheris on December 10, 2012, 11:22:04 AM

Thanks guys,

We are using a USB to VGA adapter (displaylink)

libdlo-0.1.2.tar.gz

The problem is im new to Tiny Core and not sure how to extract/run a tar.gz file

The libdlo-0.1.2.tar.gz has been downloaded to tc/downloads/libdlo-0.1.2.tar.gz

Any help would be most appreciated

Thanks everyone

Title: Re: Dual Screen
Post by: ananix on December 11, 2012, 10:08:26 AM

come on give it some effort 10days later you havent figured out how to extract the file....

$tar --help

  shows you

$tar xzvf ~tc/downloads/libdlo-0.1.2.tar.gz

would do the trick

Im affraid its gonna be a long walk for you, any reason you are not using something like ubuntu?

*GGG :)